Ted Gordon | JCPS should rescind tax hike

1:48 PM,
Aug. 18, 2013

Ted Gordon

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TED GORDON

With barely a 24-hour notice, the citizens of Louisville learned about the Jefferson County Board of Education steamrolling yet another proposed property tax increase. The sixth increase in six straight years - and a 41 percent tax hike since 1990.

This past Monday night, while ignoring the pleas from an overflow crowd of angry taxpayers protesting that enough is enough, four board members, led by David Jones along with Chris Brady, Debbie Wesslund and Diane Porter, arbitrarily raised our taxes, again without any accountability or responsibility of the convoluted and problematic JCPS ...